Protect Eroding Nest Eggs
Investors worried about inflation should consider owning commodity stocks, including gold, oil, and coal.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Major Database May Underestimate AKI Prevalence
SAN DIEGO—A large surgical database may be missing many cases of acute kidney injury (AKI), according to a recent study.
Views Conflict on Benefits of Early RRT in AKI Patients
SAN DIEGO—Data conflict on whether early renal replacement therapy (RRT) results in better outcomes in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI).
Lessons Lived: Ailments Get Personal for Some Docs
Physicians’ experiences as patients may cause them to reflect on the medical care they provide.
Drugs Will Not Replace RCC Surgery
ORLANDO—New targeted therapies for locally advanced and metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have ushered in a new era in systemic therapy, according to Christopher Wood, MD, Professor of Urology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Demographic Variance in Renal Transplantation Rates
Annual crude rates of deceased-donor transplantation from the time of hemodialysis initiation over a recent 10-year period were lowest in American Indians/Alaska Natives (2.4%) and blacks (2.8%), and highest in Asians (6.4%) and non-Hispanic whites (5.9%).
More Salt Beneficial To Type 2 Diabetics?
Although patients with type 2 diabetes are often advised to cut back on salt, a recent study found an inverse relationship between all-cause mortality and dietary salt intake.
Early Balding May Predict Prostate Cancer
Early-onset androgenic alopecia may identify men who are at high risk of developing prostate cancer (PCa), researchers reported online in Annals of Oncology.
CKD Knowledge Lacking, Survey Found
A 34-question knowledge survey administered to 401 adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) provided to be a reliable and valid instrument for identifying areas of and risk factors for poor renal knowledge among these patients, but it showed that 78% of respondents did not know that the disease may progress with no symptoms.
CKD Stage 3 Needs To Be Redefined
Nephrologists should rethink the screening level and offer a more conservative and meaningful cutoff level, such as an eGFR of 45.
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